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Islanders and Empire
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Print publication year:
2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108477659
Islanders and Empire
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Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes how residents of Hispaniola actively negotiated and transformed the meaning and reach of imperial bureaucracies and institutions for their own benefit. By co-opting the governing and judicial powers of local and imperial institutions on the island, residents could take advantage of, and even dominate, the contraband trade that reached the island s shores. In doing so, they altered the course of the European inter-imperial struggles in the Caribbean by limiting, redi
Fort Monroe named Site of Memory associated with UNESCO Slave Route Project
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Front Page » Government/Politics » Politics2 » Fort Monroe named Site of Memory associated with UNESCO Slave Route Project
Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that UNESCO has designated Fort Monroe as a Site of Memory Associated with the UNESCO Slave Route project. Photo courtesy Office of Gov. Ralph Northam.
The first enslaved African people arrived in the English colonies in the Americas in 1619 on a ship called the White Lion, landing at Point Comfort, the present site of Fort Monroe National Monument in Hampton.